Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Carrie Soto is Back is the fourth novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid that I have read. It is a #1 New York Times Bestseller and named one of the best books of the year by a handful of publications, including NPR, Time, and PopSugar. It was published a few years ago and I have been impatiently waiting to get my hands on it. A fun novel that still deals with chronic illness, death, sexism, grief, and the death of a parent.

Carrie Soto was once considered the best player in women's tennis and she still holds a bunch of records. She's been out of the game for the last few years, and at the ripe old age of thirty-seven, everyone thinks she's too old to play at the same level she used to. But as she watches a younger player tie her record for the most slams won by a single player (twenty), she gets the itch to pick her racket back up. With the help of her dad to train her and a nearly washed-up, hot headed professional men's tennis player to practice against, can she make the biggest comeback that tennis has ever seen?

Taylor Jenkins Reid cannot miss. This book is incredible. Could she be my favorite non-fantasy author? I just so think she may be. Ugh, read this book people. I reviewed her novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo last year and gave it five stars. This book is not the same kind of novel. Where Evelyn Hugo told the story of a woman nearing the end of her life, wanting to finally tell the world who she really was and looking for forgiveness in the process, Carrie Soto is an underdog story that you cannot help but route for. Carrie has some of the best character growth I've seen, it felt so natural and I ended up really loving all of the characters in the book. Watching Carrie realize that maybe winning is not all life is about is so satisfying and it leaves me wanting more. Thankfully, Reid's next book, Atmosphere, will be released this summer.

I'm giving Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid 5 stars! I can't say enough good stuff about this book, and that is from someone who has never had even the slightest interest in tennis.

Pairs well with a blueberry smoothie and listening to Elton John's song The Bitch is Back.

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